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Yesterday the latest trailer for X-Men’s Dark Phoenix hit the internet and it’s fair to say this one is going to be a doozy.

It didn’t take long for the online community, rich with previous scepticism over Jean Grey leading the push, to wax lyrical over the power of Sophie Turner’s character as she wreaked havoc in what many believe to be the last sting in the X-Men universe.

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The premise of the film follows Jean as she navigates her relationship to the Phoenix, a powerful cosmic entity that manifests itself in her body.

The tagline being bandied about says: ‘When she loses control, bad things happen’ but honestly it’s just got us all the more excited.

And if you weren’t already aware how boss Sophie was from her turn as Sansa Stark in Game Of Thrones, then this is about to show the naysayers.

Especially seeing as fans of the HBO series are suggesting this trailer is all the proof they need that Sansa sits atop the Iron Throne at the end of the last episode.

Who even are you, Chastain? (Picture: Marvel)

More than that, though, it’s brought up a lot of questions over how Jean fits into the X-Men universe and the Phoenix comics storyline, how it will affect the upcoming Marvel offering and how she interacts with the other characters.

Many have been left asking who Jessica Chastain plays, after earlier speculation suggested she was playing Shi’Ar Empress Lilandra Neramani.

Jean struggled to control her powers (Picture: Marvel)

It doesn’t appear to bode well for the Fass (Picture: Marvel)

In the trailer, she’s seen quizzing Jean, as Turner’s character asks ‘who are you?’

Not giving us anything, Chastain answers: ‘The better question is, who are you?’

It seems, though, she plays Smith, the film’s villain hellbent on leading Jean down a path of darkness with her new, devastating superpowers.

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Powers that do not appear to bode well for Michael Fassbender’s Magneto who challenges the cocky Phoenix side of Jean.

Upon seeing an angered Jean rip apart Magneto’s helmet and throw the Fass through the air with more power than Drogon, fans took to social media to share their love for the portrayal. Mainly keen to suggest Sophie’s boss X-Men nature is akin to the leader who sits on the Iron Throne.

The Phoenix is a force first introcued in X-Men No 101 by Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum, in 1976.

It forms the centre of Marvel’s mental powers, possessing telepathy, telekinesis, mental projections, which has some believing Dark Phoenix will wipe the slate clean ready for the next MCU universe to pick up.

However, when the force was covered in previous X-Men movies, mostly in 2006’s The Last Stand, it was treated as a separate identity Famke Janssen’s Jean Grey locked away – rather than a force she was unable to control, tipped to her emotions and reactions.

Still the trailer sort of gave up the game, as Jean was hit by this alien life force that seemingly brought out this Phoenix Force, with Chastain’s character saying the power ‘destroyed everything it came into contact with, until you.’

Jennifer Lawrence’s Mystique, James McAvoy’s Professor X, Tye Sheridan’s Cyclops, and Evan Peter’s Quicksilver all make a return in the movie, along with Nicholas Hoult as Beast.

Dark Phoenix is in cinemas 5 June.

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